What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.Evelyn Waugh
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
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If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ''a semi-official statement'' if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as ''a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable.'' It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of ''well-informed circles.''
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